Warcraft Experience

Had a great time last night running Azuregoes, UBRS, and ZG. WOOT! We haven’t done that in a long time and it was great.

Babba and I were on earlier running my alt (Bellisimo) thru the Stockade when someone announced in LMRBO that our lovely blue dragon was up. Finished that run up lickity-split – Thanks honi for busting out the big level 60 to scare those mean nasties away. LOL.

I switched over to Funk and we started gathering a crew together. Chuckers contacted someone in Avanta Corda (I’ll never spell that right) to see if we could group with them so some of their guild came out, so LM, AC and rounded out with some RBO and Lords of the Boogie, and I bet other guilds tossed in for good measure gave it a go. A frickin’ troll was griefing and some idiot wanded Azuregoes – not 1 idiot but 2 on 2 different occassions – before the call went out so some of us the raid started out the fight with the debuff curse on them. We got her down to 50% before we all died. By that time another group had gathered and they wound up killing her.

Trubben needed help getting the blood from Drak for the Onyxia quest in UBRS so he asked if we would go. Poor thing has gone several times and thanks to server resets has never made it all the way thru. A quick portable pizza for Babba and some soup for me and off we headed to UBRS. Sometimes you forget how fun that place is.

Some of the RBO guys were heading there anyway so we teamed up and had a blast. Even had a few 50s in the group so they could get some experience and loot. Calwin, a 54 Priest, got the [item]Devout Mantle[/item] off Solakar Flamewreath (hope he knows how rare that drop is). And when grows up a few levels he’ll be able to use it. LOL. One piece down!

Drak dropped the [item]Brigam Girdle[/item] (Babbaganoosh won the greed roll with a 97 – shard FTW) and Elheem won the [item]Breastplate of Valor[/item] with a 38. Luckily, Burthona just came on so we got to rub that in his face After a bit of grumbling Burthona had the best idea yet – ZG! Hell yea!

A portal to SW and off we headed for ZG. Thank god I still had some water left over from the previous raids.

We took down four boss’ and ended our evening on a high note! I think Friday has tentatively been pin-pointed for a continuation.

Some words from our fearless raid leader (Burthona):

Nice work, all.

We had some great crafting pieces drop, as well as soon fine loot. We encountered a few loot issues that I need to get with Ambiance and Aster and make sure they’re clearly addressed.

With our MC equipment, that place is cake. We crushed four bosses (with only one wipe which was a fluke) in a little less than two and a half hours.

Some thoughts:

* More organization on the pulls could save us a little time. If the mages always know which target they’re sheeping for a given type of mob group, then we can pull that much faster. (Faster pulling makes Burthona wet.)
* I think we had the optimum build for groups last night. Did someone get a screen cap of the group setup?
* It’s difficult enough to hold aggro (from a warrior’s persepctive) with all that phat dps going around, but opening with aimed shot or pyroblast makes it impossible. Save those for after Burthona has a couple taunts and sunders in on the mob, eh?
* Mr. Ding – I lost aggro on him a bit at first, until I hit upon the winning combo – taunt, sunder, revenge, sunder, shield slam, heroic strike, (babba/jadzia has aggro), TAUNT, walk backwards, shield slam, revenge, etc. Tanking him is almost identical to tanking General Drak…with the exception that shield bash seems to keep him from dinging. At least, every time I thought he was doing it, I gave him a bloody nose with my shield and he stopped.

Jeklik (Bat Chick)
- [item]Jeklik’s Opaline Talisman[/item] – Chriara with a 83
- [item]Primal Hakkari Armsplint[/item] – Chuckers

Venoxis (Snake Boss)
OOooo doggie…don’t forget to assign CC (crowd control) before the pull. Forgot to do that, so quick thinking Redcross ran out of the doors and reset the fight.
- [item]Zulian Tigerhide Cloak[/item] – Aierestian with a 74
- [item]Primal Hakkari Girdle[/item] – Aierestian with a 43 (she must have a roll hack. lol)

Mar’li (Spider Boss)
- [item]Mar’li’s Eye[/item] – Muridis with a 98
- [item]Primal Hakkari Bindings[/item] – Asteroidea with a 85

Mandokir (Mr. Ding)
POWN! Only one death!!!
- [item]Primal Hakkari Tabard[/item] – Butters with a 57
- [item]Animist’s Leggings[/item] – Chuckers won the greed roll. shard-licious
- [item]Overlord’s Crimson Band[/item] – Burthona with a 66

That was the best ZG run yet guys. I can’t wait to tackle the back-half!